The New Society

May 30, 2016

thecrystalfems:
“ profeminist:
“ profeminist:
“ Original Ghostbuster Dan Akroyd praises new film on Twitter, comment section behaves typically, once again demonstrating sexism and male entitlement driving anti-reboot sentiment.
“Much as I love you...

profeminist:
profeminist:
Original Ghostbuster Dan Akroyd praises new film on Twitter, comment section behaves typically, once again demonstrating sexism and male entitlement driving anti-reboot sentiment.
“Much as I love you Dan, I hate female protagonists more!”
“I’m not sexist for not wanting to see the movie, you royalties whore!”
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My response for anyone who argues, “why not leave all my childhood classics alone? Go make different movies!”
Can y'all stop pretending people don’t want to see the movie because it has women in it…
People don’t want to see the movie because the trailer sucked the jokes suck and overall it looks like it sucks.
Sexism has nothing to do with it. It’s sad that you would assume that people care as much about the gender of the actors in a movie as you think they do.
I thought feminism wanted to see a world with less sexism, why go out of your way to pretend there’s sexism where there isn’t any?

Because there wasn’t this much outrage over the remakes of Robocop, Clash of the Titans, Total Recall, Evil Dead, Footloose or The Karate Kid prior to their release.

Because the last time we saw this vitriolic behavior over a remake, it was with Annie, which featured a mostly black cast, though people swore it had nothing to do with race. Like how they’re trying to cover their misogyny in the same way.

Because the entire point is to make a movie STARRING WOMEN and FOR WOMEN, and the people that are angry are the usual gatekeepers of nerd culture that have been standing behind their “NO GIRLS ALLOWED” signs for years.

Because people will always make excuses in order to veil and ultimately legitimize their bigotry.

And most importantly, because if the movie was remade with a male cast, it wouldn’t give rise to hate campaigns and boycotts.

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